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Asphalt scam. This owner of the company called me claiming to have a great offer if I let him do my driveway. I said I was only accepting offers to consider but planning to do it next spring. He said he had a job cancel on him and would lose the asphalt allocated to him and if I was to save him he would give me a good deal. He ended up quoting $22,700. I didn't have a chance to research the company, fast talking sales person, said he owned the company and to trust him blah blah. I agreed and they came to do the job around 1pm. When I saw the first half of the job it was horrible, they laid asphalt on top of my concrete patio instead of a clean edge (pictures available). When I called him, he said "oh sorry, I didn't tell the men there was a patio here, that is my fault. We will fix it". All he did was roll over it to flatten the edge on top of the concrete. Still looking horrible. Then around the patio door, the laid asphalt so thick, water runs into the house instead of away from it (pictures available). The asphalt was cold and not well pressed, its all in clumps and only 3 days after the job was done, the asphalt can be kicked loose by just walking on it. They did not level the driveway and several areas collect water. They moved items onto the grass and when done, they left everything in a pile of mess (pictures). They left clumps of asphalt on the grass, borders extremely irregular, Variable thickness of asphalt along the way (pictures). The entrance of the driveway from the asphalt road, they laid my asphalt over the asphalt road about half to one inch thick and just left it. I told him the snow plough will rip that edge up on the first snow fall. Everything I point out he argued was nothing wrong with it, that's the way it should be!! Then he argued that I was not letting him finish the job, that he was still there and when he's done it will be perfect. But it was obvious he just wanted to rush through and there was no repairing the asphalt after it got cold. But he insisted it can all be fixed, just let him finish. Then he rushed half the crew and equipment off the job and said he was just keeping 4 guys and they would take care of things. They worked slower and it got to 9pm. What he had told me would be a 2 day job, he was rushing to finish in one day (less than 7hours) and with half the crew. The result is a huge mess that has completely devalued a million dollar home. All pictures show the disaster that I was left with. He then came to me demanding full payment for $22,700 even though he agreed that a lot needed to be fixed. He yelled and intimidated me with another guy he brought with him during the day but never introduced him, and the group of Mexican workers he had. (I am a single woman living alone). I told him at some point I will not be bullied and there is so much wrong with this job but everything I brought up, he acted like I was nagging him and as if I was nitpicking, even though the pictures clearly show what a horrible job this is. At one point, I posted a few pictures of the project on next door neighbor asking strangers opinions, tens of responses came stating it was a horrible job, not one response was in favor. I showed him the responses, he still argued and said they were not professionals and he demanded payment and got really aggressive. He asked to send him personally payment, I said where is the company account, he said I am the owner it is all the same. He demanded the money be transferred to his personal account not the company account. Payment was made with the agreement that they would return in a couple of days to fix all the identified problems. He refused to return and keeps coming up with lame excuses. Not only was the job horrible but he rushed the men out of here where they did not clean up after themselves. Left Tshirts and water bottles thrown all over my yard. They did not return anything they moved back to where it was. Pictures available to show the mess.